SPACE ODYSSEY

Van Cleef & Ar­pels Lady Ar­pels Plané­tar­ium

This year, Van Cleef & Ar­pels launched the Lady Ar­pels Plané­tar­ium, a smaller ver­sion of the Plané­tar­ium for men that was in­tro­duced back in 2014. The watch is equipped with an as­tro­nom­i­cal com­pli­ca­tion that tracks the move­ment of the plan­ets around the sun where each heav­enly body fea­tures a dif­fer­ent ma­te­rial: Pink gold for the sun, pink mother-of-pearl for Mer­cury, green enamel for Venus, turquoise for Earth and a di­a­mond for the Moon, all set against a blue aven­turine dial in a white gold case with di­a­monds. Most im­pres­sively, each planet will or­bit around the watch at its ex­act speed in real life, with Mer­cury go­ing around in 88 days, Venus in 224 days, Earth in 365 days and the Moon ro­tat­ing in 29.5 days. At the case back, there is also a cres­cent moon with “serti neige” style di­a­monds and an Earth in turquoise. There are also two aper­tures dis­play­ing the day, month and year.